Comment by emptybits

There wasn't easy hover text or other way to reveal what's coming "this month" on their advent calendar. So spoilers for the impatient:

   1 William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
   2 Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons
   3 Albert Einstein
   4 Nan Shepherd – The Weatherhouse
   5 Langston Hughes – Not Without Laughter
   6 Wallace Stevens
   7 Hermann Hesse – Narcissus and Goldmund
   8 All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)
   9 Barbara Hepworth
  10 Evelyn Waugh – Vile Bodies
  11 Geoffrey Dennis – The End of the World
  12 Charlie Parker
  13 Margaret Ayer Barnes – Years of Grace
  14 Hellbound Train
  15 Hannah Arendt
  16 Robert Musil – The Man Without Qualities
  17 T. S. Eliot – Ash Wednesday
  18 Thomas Mann
  19 Agatha Christie – The Murder at the Vicarage
  20 Franz Kafka – The Castle (English translation)
  21 Walker Evans
  22 Sigmund Freud – Civilization and Its Discontents
  23 Stella Benson – The Far-Away Bride
  24 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  25 E. H. Young – Miss Mole
  26 P. G. Wodehouse
  27 Vladimir Nabokov – The Defense
  28 Dashiell Hammett – The Maltese Falcon
  29 Roger Mais
  30 Saadat Hasan Manto
  31 Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – Insatiability